Do NOT attempt to use these commands for data recovery. The certain result will be that your drive will be even further damaged, and the likelihood of data recovery greatly reduced. If your data can still be recovered, it will cost you plenty more after you cause this damage, assuming that the data will be recoverable at all. These commands will surely destroy your data and most of what hope you have of recovering it. These are factory commands to format, calibrate, and test the drive. They overwrite data in a manner that once done, cannot be reversed.

For hard drive repair, on the other hand, there is an outside chance this info can help, if a lot of research is done here, and elsewhere using Google translate.

This is a much, much better and more complete reference than in the files section here or the many identical useless copies I have seen of that elsewhere on the net. It took many hours of searching to find it.

Enjoy in moderation. Very likely, you will destroy your drive and find it very difficult or impossible to obtain any assistance trying to revive it. You have been warned, Ptaak.

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See also
seagate-terminal-commands-t6411.html

I was planning to write a tutorial on using it at some point
and how to interpret certain things
and how to read and edit sectors (both in user area and SA area)


Just to repeat

WARNING: Some of these commands can be dangerous
WARNING: Commands may well different between drives and are case sensitive
WARNING: Some of the info / assumptions mentioned by people using the Seagate terminal command may be wrong

If you ever get that done, if you remember, please send me a notice.

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so far 93 people are prepared to send their drives to Sto-vo-Kor ;o)

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All went well until I plugged the drive in.

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